This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

oday in Indian History

Events for July 4

4-July-1729
Kanhoji Angre, former
Chief of Navy in Maratha
kingdom, died.

4-July-1760
Meeran, Mir Jaffer's son,
accidently died on the
banks of Ganga near
Patna due to lightning.

4-July-1789
British East India
Company signed a treaty
with the Nizam of
Hydrabad and Peshwa of
Pune against Tipu Sultan,
King of Mysore, on the
understanding that a
cavalry of 10,000 would
attack Tipu's territory and
the conquered area would
be divided amongst the
three.

4-July-1897
Nanaksingh, famous
Punjabi novelist, was born
in a Hindu family in
village Chak Hamid, Tehsil
Dadan Khan, District
Jhelum (now in Pakistan).

4-July-1897
Alluri Seetaram Raju,
freedom fighter, was born
in a Kshatriya clan in
Andhra Pradesh. He is
rememberred as one of
the great sons of India in
the annals of Indian
history who fought
valiantly for his
motherland in the early
period of the freedom
movement.

4-July-1899
Vishnuprasad
Ranchhoddas Trivedi,
famous critic in Gujrati,
educationist and author,
was born at Umreth,
Gujarat .

4-July-1900
Swami Shivanand
Saraswati, religious
leader, was born.

4-July-1902
Swami Vivekanand
(Narendra Vishwanath
Dutta), Indian religious
leader and social
reformer, died at
Memorial Rock,
KanyaKumari. His brilliant
career came to a sudden
end only at the age of 39.

 

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4-July-1912
Pandit Nivrittibuwa
Sarnaik, singer of 'Jaypur
Gharana', was born.

4-July-1914
Savlaram Ravji Patil (P.
Savlaram), film lyrisist
and story writer, was
born.

4-July-1922
Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer
(off-spinner in 22 Tests
for India in 1950's), was
born in Hyderabad.

4-July-1933
Mahatma Gandhi
sentenced to one year
imprisonment.

4-July-1985
Police inquiry said bombs
caused Air India jet
disaster in New Delhi.

4-July-1986
Sunil Gavaskar celebrated
his 115th Test in cricket
at Edgbaston.

4-July-1989
Capt. W. A. Sangma
appointed Governor of
Mizoram and A. A. Rahim
Governor of Meghalaya.

4-July-1989
Union Deputy Ministers
were promoted to the
rank of Ministers of State.

4-July-1991
Fourth test of missile
'Prithvi'.

4-July-1992
Sanskrit made a
compulsory subject from
sixth to intermediate
classes in Uttar Pradesh.

4-July-1994
Labhuben Mehta, famous
Gujrathi author, died.

4-July-1995
Rajan Pillai, business
tycoon and biscuit king of
India, who was convicted
by a Singapore court for
multi-million dollar fraud,
was arrested in New
Delhi.

4-July-1997
Mumbai High Court
directs BMC to reinstate
G.R. Khairnar, the
iconoclastic Dy. Municipal
Commissioner suspended
in `94 and removed from
service in October 1996.

4-July-1997
Centre frees from its
control nine top public
sector undertakings,
accounting for over Rs.
10,000 crore profits
annually, to become
global giants by providing
them full financial and
operational autonomy.
This included newsprint
and paper from licensing
controls.

4-July-1999
Over 500 children of
Kargil migrants take out a
procession to Batalik in a
show of solidarity with
the Indian army.

4-July-1999
S. Vijayalakshmi won the
National women's `A'
chess championship with
a round to spare in
Kozhikode.

4-July-1999
The Indian Army
recaptured Tiger Hill after
a 11 hour assault, and
hoisted the tricolour atop
the 16,500 ft. peak.

4-July-2000
The trial of the Bihar
Chief Minister Rabri Devi
and RJD president Laloo
Prasad Yadav in the
disproportionate assets
case begins.

4-July-2000
Volvo's Environmental
Prize went to Prof. Amulya
K. N. Reddy of India and
three others for their
work on ''How the world's
energy resources can be
made to suffice as the
population grows''.

 

[Thakur]

July 6

1415 Jan Hus, a Czech who spoke out against Church corruption, is burned at the stake as a heretic.
1519 Charles of Spain is elected Holy Roman emperor in Barcelona.
1535 Sir Thomas More is beheaded in England for refusing to swear allegiance to King Henry VIII as head of the Church.
1536 Jaques Cartier returns to France after discovering the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
1685 James II defeats James, the Duke of Monmouth, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil.
1770 The entire Ottoman fleet is destroyed by the Russians at the battle of Cesme.
1788 10,000 troops are called out in Paris as unrest mounts in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food.
1836 French General Thomas Bugeaud defeats Abd al-Kader’s forces beside the Sikkak River in Algeria.
1835 John Marshall, the third chief justice of the Supreme Court, dies at the age of 79. Two days later, while tolling in his honor in Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell cracks.
1854 The Republican Party is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan.
1885 Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies innoculation.
1944 Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man.
1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers attack Honshu, Japan, using new fire-bombing techniques.
1945 Operation Overcast begins in Europe–moving Austrian and German scientists and their equipment to the United States.
1982 President Ronald Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beruit.
Born on July 6

1747 John Paul Jones, naval hero of the American Revolution.
1910 Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer.
1921 Nancy Reagan, wife of President Ronald Reagan.
1927 Bill Haley, rock ‘n’ roll musician.
1935 Dalai Lama [Tenzin Gyatso], Tibetan religious leader, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Thakur]

July 7

1742 A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony’s British defenders.The battle decides the fate of a colony.
1777 American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
1791 Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church.
1795 Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte’s army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria.
1807 Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte.
1814 Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.
1815 After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris.
1853 Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation.
1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.
1925 Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
1927 Christopher Stone becomes the first British ‘disc jockey’ when he plays records for the BBC.
1941 Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany’s hands.
1943 Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.
1966 The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
1969 The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon.
1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Born on July 7

1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, textile industry pioneer.
1860 Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor.
1887 Marc Chagall, French painter and designer.
1906 Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher.
1940 Ringo Starr, musician, one of the Beatles.

 

[Thakur]

July 10

1520 The Spanish explorer Cortes is driven from Tenochtitlan and retreats to Tlaxcala.
1609 The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.
1679 The British crown claims New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1747 Persian ruler Nadir Shah is assassinated at Fathabad.
1776 The statue of King George III is pulled down in New York City.
1778 In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declares war on England.
1850 Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor.
1890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open-heart surgery, without anesthesia.
1925 The trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes opens, with Clarence Darrow appearing for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.
1940 Germany begins the bombing of England.
1942 General Carl Spaatz becomes the head of the U.S. Air Force in Europe.
1943 American and British forces complete their amphibious landing of Sicily.
1945 U.S. carrier-based aircraft begin airstrikes against Japan in preparation for invasion.
1951 Armistice talks between the United Nations and North Korea begin at Kaesong.
1960 Belgium sends troops to the Congo to protect whites as the Congolese Bloodbath begins, just 10 days after the former colony became independent of Belgian rule.
1962 The satellite Telstar is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, beaming live television from Europe to the United States.
1965 “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” becomes the Rolling Stones’ first No. 1 single in the USA.
1967 Singer Bobbie Gentry records “Ode to Billie Joe,” which will become a country music classic and win 4 Grammys.
1976 In Seveso, near Milan, Italy, an explosion in a chemical factory covers the surrounding area with toxic dioxin. Time magazine has ranked the Seveso incident No. 8 on its list of 10 worst environmental disasters.
1985 Coca-Cola Co. announces it will resume selling “old formula Coke,” following public outcry and falling sales of its “new Coke.”
1991 Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as the first elected president of the Russian Federation, following the breakup of the USSR.
1993 Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.
Born on July 10
1509 John Calvin, Protestant religious leader, founder of Calvinism.
1830 Camille Pissarro, French painter.
1834 James Abbott McNeil Whistler, painter.
1871 Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the National Council of Negro Women.
1905 Ivie Anderson, jazz singer.
1915 Saul Bellow, writer.
1920 David Brinkley, broadcaster.
1927 David Dinkins, first African-American mayor of New York City.
1931 Alice Munro, Canadian writer (Open Secrets, Friend of my Youth).
1933 Jerry Herman, songwriter.
1943 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player.
1947 Folk singer Arlo Guthrie (“Alice’s Restaurant,” “City of New Orleans”), son of Woody Guthrie.
1965 Alexia, princess of Greece and Denmark.
1980 Adam Petty, race driver, first fourth-generation driver in NASCAR history; his death in 2000 contributed to NASCAR’s decision to mandate a kill switch on steering wheels.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for July 12

12-July-1295
Savtamali, famous saint, attains 'samadhee'.

12-July-1489
Bahlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan and founder of Lodi dynasty, died in Delhi.
12-July-1576
Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death.

12-July-1674
Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company.

12-July-1823
First Indian Steam Engine Ship ""Diana-a-Gunboat""sailed in a sea near Calcutta. It was built by Kyd & Co
12-July-1864
Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade, great Historian, was born.

12-July-1896
Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born.

12-July-1909
Vimal Rai, film producer and director, was born.

12-July-1920
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.

12-July-1920
Siddharthacharry V, educationist and diplomat, was born at Mysore.

12-July-1932
The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.

12-July-1947
Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad.

12-July-1949
Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.

12-July-1949
Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die.

12-July-1957
Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan.

12-July-1960
Bhagalpur University was established in Bihar.

12-July-1960
Ranchi University was established.

12-July-1965
Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay, Indian middle-order batsman), was born in Mangalore.

12-July-1970
Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.

12-July-1980
Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha.

12-July-1993
West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died.

 

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12-July-1994
India expels Pak diplomat; Indian attache tortured in Islamabad.

12-July-1994
Vasant (V. P. Sathe), film critic, journalist, publisher and author, passed away.

12-July-1996
Bail granted to Harshad Mehta, prime accused in the securities scam.

12-July-1996
Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months.

12-July-1996
Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.

12-July-1998
India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee.

12-July-1999
India sets a deadline for intruders withdrawal from Kargil, announces suspension of air strikes.

12-July-1999
Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai.

12-July-2000
67 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for July 21

21-July-1658
Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned.

21-July-1883
Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.

21-July-1891
Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi.

21-July-1906
W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away.

21-July-1907
Gulam Mohamad Bakshi, former Prime Minister Jammu and Kashmir, was born.

21-July-1911
Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.

21-July-1930
Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born.

21-July-1934
Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune.

21-July-1935
Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.

21-July-1936
Vasantrao Vishnu Limye, senior journalist and President of 'Ratnagiri District Parishad', was born.

21-July-1947
Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three

 

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21-July-1962
Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.

21-July-1963
Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.

21-July-1975
Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.

21-July-1977
K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
21-July-1977
Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.

21-July-1977
Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away.

21-July-1984
Terrorists breach Bhakra canal in Punjab.

21-July-1988
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.

21-July-1993
Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.

21-July-1994
The Supreme Court declares that SC/ST will lose status on migration to other states.

21-July-1995
Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away.

21-July-1999
Bansi Lal, Haryana Chief Minister, quits before seeking a trust vote; and rebels form a separate party.

21-July-1999
The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA.

21-July-2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for July 23

23-July-1555
Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire.

23-July-1856
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

23-July-1898
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.

23-July-1904
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.

23-July-1906
Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh.

23-July-1912
Kilachand Ambalal, great industrialist, was born.

23-July-1918
Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh.

23-July-1923
Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad.

23-July-1927
Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.

23-July-1933
Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country).

23-July-1956
India celebrates the birth centenary of Lokmanya Tilak

23-July-1964
Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away.

23-July-1976
Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.

23-July-1988
Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died.

23-July-1990
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.